A fragment of a cuneiform seal that’s now the first direct evidence of official communication between the kingdoms of Judah and Assyria has emerged at an archaeological site in Israel. According to ...

Those millions of dead people supposedly claiming Social Security? It’s obvious now that they were bogus. UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport, killing 12; black boxes found Bodies keep turning ...

Bedichek Middle School students walked out during the school day on Tuesday to protest the proposed closure of Bedichek Middle School. Kids could be heard chanting "save our school!" Trump’s push to ...

Cuneiform is a system of writing that was invented by the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia. Believed to have been created sometime during the 4th millennium BC (between 3500 and 3000 BC), this script ...

Unsold Middle Eastern crude cargoes from the recently wrapped up trading cycle are pointing to early signs that an expected global oil surplus could be starting to emerge. The volume of unsold oil set ...

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles School District’s board of directors approved Hurricane Ridge Middle School as the name of the new school that is currently under construction. The name and building ...

The now-familiar tale of the middle grade market has many alarming plot strands, including declining sales, encroaching censorship, unstable school and library funding, and dips in children’s reading ...

For the American middle class, it has been a summer of cooling confidence. Consumer sentiment dropped nearly 6% in August, after trending up in June and July, according to a closely watched index from ...

A Babylonian hymn lost for over a thousand years was rediscovered. Experts pieced together the hymn using an AI model to decipher hundreds of cuneiform tablets in a Baghdad library. The library’s ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain ...

What does it take to decipher an extinct writing system? If Joshua Hammer’s new book The Mesopotamian Riddle: An archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world’s oldest ...